Coral James O'Connor

Coral James O’Connor has worked in the media industry for over 15 years with a special interest in working in multimedia. She trained as a radio journalist, moved quickly into television working for TV companies such as Anglia Television and production companies like Roger Bolton Productions, before working for the first wave of multimedia internet channels PCCW/TWI’s Now Channel on environmental news programmes, hosted by the well known Physicist, Brian Cox. Most recently she worked for Al Gore’s TV network – Current TV on Google Current news and the Guardian newspaper’s vlogs, later becoming the channel’s manager for UK production. Coral now works full time as a journalism lecturer at the University of Brighton.

Related Sessions
Sunday 21 October 2012, 6.30pm Pit Theatre

The empty square: the public engaged or imagined?

"A truly original battle with a great deal at stake as opposed to a reassuring renactment of old arguments. I felt refreshed rather than entrenched afterwards."
Damian Barr, columnist, writer, playwright, salonierre

follow the Academy of Ideas